Palace Square in Leningrad as seen from the Winter Palace. First plan: the Alexander's Column erected in 1834 at the order of Tsar Nicholas I to honor his elder brother Alexander I's over Napoleon. Architect Auguste Montferrand. Background: the building of the General Staff, built in the Empire style according to the project of the architect Carl Rossi in 1810-1829.
- Categories: Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Location: St.Petersburg, Russia
- Event date: 08.04.1979
- Date published: 08.04.2022
- Author: Vsevolod Tarasevich
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: 79-4390, 35 mm film
- Media: JPEG, 5292x3543px, 7.6Mb